The History of Baseball: Its Great Players, Teams and Managers
Author: Allison Danzig
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13:
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Greats of the Game
Author: Ray Robinson
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810958821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreats of the Game is a dazzling summation of many of baseball's greatest players and teams, most exciting games and World Series, and most stunning moments. This treasure trove of stories, facts, and photos is informed by the expertise, experience, and engaging prose of two longtime baseball mavens.
Evaluating Baseball's Managers
Author: Chris Jaffe
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0786457430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their performance and tendencies. Rather than focusing solely on in-game tactical decisions, it also analyzes broader, off-the-field management issues such as handling players, fans, and media, enforcing team rules, working with the front office, and balancing pressure versus performance.
A Team for the Ages
Author: Robert W. Cohen
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781592284023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCertain to create new controversies, and stir up some old ones, here is a fascinating historical and comparative look at the national pastime and its greatest players over the past one hundred years.
The Cup of Coffee Club
Author: Jacob Kornhauser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1538130823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is one of the very best baseball books in years.” Booklist, Starred Review Reaching the major leagues is a pipe dream for most young baseball players in America. Very few ever get to live it out. A select number of those players face the elation and frustration of getting to play in just one major league game. The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History tells the unique stories of eleven of these players. It details their struggles to reach the major leagues, their one moment in the limelight, and their struggles to get back. They include a former Major League Baseball manager, the son of a Baseball Hall of Famer, and two different brothers of Hall of Famers. Exclusive interviews with each of the players provide insight into what that single seminal moment meant and how they dealt with the blow of never making another major league appearance again. Spanning half a century of baseball, each player’s journey to Major League Baseball is distinct, as is each of their responses to having played in just a single game. The Cup of Coffee Club shares their unique perspectives, providing a better understanding of just how special each major league game can be.
Great Teams in Baseball History
Author: Hanna Altergott
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2005-12-13
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781410914842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are greatest teams in baseball and what made them stand out? Learn statistics about Hall of Fame players and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic managers, this book spans almost a century to find the best in baseball history.
We Played the Game
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 1994-04-07
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis incredible gathering of first-hand remembrances brings a fascinating and enlightening new perspective to the period of baseball's greatest peak and ultimate turning point--when bigotry and exploitation still ran rampant among the clubs and the sport was irrevocably being changed into a business. 100 photos.
We Would Have Played for Nothing
Author: Fay Vincent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-04-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1416565310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. Whitey Ford, Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, Bill Rigney, and Ralph Branca tell stories about baseball in New York when the Yankees dominated and seemed to play either the Dodgers or the Giants in every World Series. By the end of the fifties, the two National League teams had relocated to California, as baseball expanded across the country. Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts, Braves mainstay Lew Burdette, home-run king Harmon Killebrew, Cubs slugger Billy Williams, and Hall of Famers Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson share great stories about milestone events, from Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier on the field to Frank Robinson doing the same in the dugout. They remember the teammates and opponents they admired, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Warren Spahn, Don Newcombe, and Ernie Banks. For anyone who grew up watching baseball in the 1950s and 1960s, or for anyone who wonders what it was like in the days when ballplayers negotiated their own contracts and worked real jobs in the off-season, this is a book to cherish.
Playing for Keeps
Author: Warren Jay Goldstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0801471478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.
The Great Baseball Revolt
Author: Robert B. Ross
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0803249411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes. Purchase the audio edition.
